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Subversion Through Inversion: Kent Monkman's "The Triumph Of Mischief", Monique Belitz
Subversion Through Inversion: Kent Monkman's "The Triumph Of Mischief", Monique Belitz
Art & Art History ETDs
Monkmans acrylic painting The Triumph of Mischief is the central subject of this investigation which includes its relationship to other paintings and objects in the installation The Triumph of Mischief. By applying Mieke Bal's narratology theory, the principles of carnivals as proposed by Mikhail Bahktin, the four dichotomies underlying Western movies, Monkman's appropriation of older art work, his use of various binary opposites and his inclusion of iconographic details from various art history epochs are explained. Investigating the painting from a postcolonial and postmodern theoretical angle demonstrates that several iconic images from Western art history are decolonized by mocking and …
Phenomenology Of Space And Time In Rudyard Kipling's Kim: Understanding Identity In The Chronotope, Daniel S. Parker
Phenomenology Of Space And Time In Rudyard Kipling's Kim: Understanding Identity In The Chronotope, Daniel S. Parker
English Theses
This thesis intends to investigate the ways in which the changing perceptions of landscape during the nineteenth century play out in Kipling’s treatment of Kim’s phenomenological and epistemological questions of identity by examining the indelible influence of space— geopolitical, narrative, and imaginative—on Kim’s identity. By interrogating the extent to which maps encode certain ideological assumptions, I will assess the problematic issues of Kim’s multi-faceted identity through an exploration of both geographical and narrative landscapes and the various chronotopes—Bakhtin’s term for coexisting frameworks of time and space—that ultimately provide a new reading of identity-formation in Kim.